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Minister survive any shakeup? plus, welcome to the land of joe biden. the tdr 50 train touches down in del marva. for a week-long look at the politics that drives delaware in maryland. it's monday, june 23rd, 2014, this is "the daily rundown." the first daily rundown of the summer. secretary of state john kerry arrived in baghdad early this morning. part of it is to pressure prime minister maliki to form a new, more inclusive government. he also spoke with iraqi leaders about the type of assistance the u.s. is prepared to provide to combat isis. now kerry met with maliki for an hour 40 minut...

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As a matter of fact, we understand kuwait is withdrawing their ambassador. most of the thousands and thousands of personnel here at the u.s. embassy where i am today in baghdad, 8,000 at its peak, we are told, most of them have been relocated to safer posts. but kerry came here because he thinks this is really a critical point that iraq could fall apart, because isis is not only advancing and taking ground, they're holding ground, chuck. this is a direct threat to the sovereignty of iraq. they put a lot of the blame at the feet of prime minister maliki with whom he met. he met with other leade...

Of iran. but is kerry -- is there an alternative of the maliki that's ready to go? is there an alternative to him that kerry and the u.s. is working with yet, or not yet? >> reporter: they are working behind the scenes with all of them and they won't name who they think might be the alternative. they are very loathe to be in a position of the u.s. picking the winners, because that perhaps would be the kiss of death on anyone the u.s. chose or designated and certainly would alienate iran. the ayatollah came out very strongly against what the u.s. has even suggested doing militarily and that sou...